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Cedar Key, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Cedar Key-Yankeetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32625. It lies near Way Key. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Key quadrangle. 687 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Cedar Key within Levy County

Then and now

1954 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cedar Key, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Cedar Key, surveyed 1954

On record in Cedar Key

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Cedar Key fell from 702 to 687 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010702
2020687-15 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Key between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,032 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2010Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLEVY/LABOR DAY FIRE
2 September 2001Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2014Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePERODY ROAD (38)
4 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2009Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLEVY/SCRUB BOUNDRY FIRE
6 July 2008Debris and open burning40 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLEVY/1107/SCRUB
31 July 2000Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Levy County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Key in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2013Thunderstorm WindCedar Key$60,000The Cedar Key fire chief reported widespread wind damage with numerous trees and power lines down as well as damage to docks and boats in several locations around Cedar Key.
March 1996Thunderstorm WindCedar Key$2,000no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindCedar Key$1,000Levy County Fire Rescue reported a tree knocked down, blocking CR 347 near Cedar Key. Time estimated by radar.
November 2014Thunderstorm WindCedar Key$1,000Levy County dispatch reported a tree down on County Road 347 near the Cedar Key Scrub.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindCedar Key-Cedar Key PD reported down trees near Wildlife Refuge.
April 2010HailCedar Key-The public reported quarter sized hail in Cedar Key.
March 1996HailCedar Key-no account filed
March 1996HailCedar Key-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Levy County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Wakasassa (historical)4.4 miles12
Lukens6.2 miles8
Sumner6.5 miles11
Rosewood8.8 miles11
Beech Creek (historical)13.5 miles12
Vista16.5 miles12
Ellzey17.5 miles10
Port Inglis17.6 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Cedar KeyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2011116The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 280208. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.